In before Spain claims it...
We know that there are 250 ships that hold treasures, and sooner or later, a construction project or something similar will discover it. Regardless, there is no contingency plan to protect these findings,” he said.
Easily 1.5 billion dollars just on the metals value. Probably much more as artifacts to sell to people. There is no sane argument beyond feminine emotion to think it should remain on the ocean floor if it could be found.
More AI-written crap-worded unreadable junk. Is there a real article that contains more and better information?
Does that sound reasonable? Were cargo ships being built in less than a month's time, continuously for 550 years? That's some serious manpower and material procurement. And that's just for the ones that sunk in the regions around Portugal?
I'm skeptical. Not saying it's impossible, but just that it sounds excessive by a considerable factor.
Over 8,000 ships sunk? No wonder their forests were depleted. Takes a lot of timber to make a sturdy ship, and a lot of waste also.